Frameboxx S.G.Road, Ahmedabad | Contra

[indu_s_n]

Hi all !!!!!

We are from Frameboxx, S.G.Road branch Ahmedabad.....Our team currently includes two members:

> Indrajeet: (myself)
> Kapil : user id humk007
> Sumit: user id sumit_90

We might soon add the third member too....but as for now that's the team...

Our concept is based on the most epic game ever.......

The game that was the first ever video game i played....the revolution in tv based gaming back from the old days.....

None other than CONTRA !!!!!!!!!!

Plot: In Contra, the player controls one of two armed military commandos named Bill and Lance who are sent on a mission to neutralize a terrorist organization called Red Falcon that is secretly planning an alien invasion on Earth.
Details of the game's setting varies between supplementary materials:
>> the Japanese version establishes the game to be set in the fictional Oceania archipielago of Galuga in the futuristic year of 2633<too futuristic!>
>>Whereas the manual for the American NES version sets the game during the present in an unnamed South American island. (we went through this as it sounded a bit real)

TV version: Konami produced their own home version of Contra for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which was released on February 1988 in Japan and North America. The PAL version, was released on December 1990. (same year i was born!!!

Scenario:

It's one of the boss battles. We browsed through all contra boss battles (including the ones in supercontra) but all of them more or less being from the "alien-ish" background from the japanese version including the final boss being incredibly alien.....so as we were looking for a boss based in the south american jungle version from the present or near future....we found this one spider robot in the third stage in Super contra...<luckily the stage too was based in jungle like we wanted...

Also checked the 4th shot which we found dramatic to portray in 3d..

[indu_s_n]

Characters design....

Well, if u look at the original contra game, the character of Bill and Lance is nothing more than few colored pixels!!

so we started looking for the poster of the original contra, and BINGO !!!!!

We found this pic on google where there is a comparison between the original game poster for Contra and Arnold Schwarzenegger from the movie Predator and Sylvester Stallone from a Rambo movie.....

I guess u are smart enough to judge that the Contra protagonists Bill and Lance were clearly the game portrayal of Arnold and Sty.....

So we are working on making these two as our base for character development...

[Abhinash]

cool guyz...

welcome in the competition. good concept. waiting for your gameover final scene and updates

[indu_s_n]

Thanxx.....concepts uploading by today itself.....

[syed danish ali]

my favorite game dear.........hoping for nice output bro..... Best of luck. and ya i too waiting for the updates...........

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[indu_s_n]

So, i just finished scanning and compiling all the concepts we had for the spider bot which we decided as the final arch enemy, rather than the usual contra aliens and their hearts...lol
...srsly the end of actual contra has the alien's heart as the main boss, in other contra it's alien's brain!! wat are we fighting alien body parts or wat!! hahaha

Anyways...here's wat we analyzed a main boss in contra has:

> Defense: The boss should have a defense mechanism to protect him from player's shots....

> Rapid Fire: A rapid fire mechanism allowing the boss to fire shots continuously thus keeping the player engaged (this was so prominent in contra that i used to die every other minute )

> Main Shots: The boss generally has one unique power that he uses for once then it takes sumtime to recharge and he shoots again....

Keeping all this in mind we did some doodling...

[indu_s_n]

thanx buddy ! i srsly feel like singing the song from 3 idiots, "i wanna grow up once again".... Contra means a lot to me being the FIRST videogame i ever played !!( excluding the tetris hand held consoles which i played before that, lol ) it kinda makes me nostalgic to remember how i used to beg my mom to play for one hour and know wat's worse??

I had to complete the entire game in one hour or do it all over again as there was no saving in 64 bits....loved it though !

[spkumar]

Hey! You guys have taken an awesome game to work with. All the very best to your team. You'll have a lot of attachment towards this project, i can see that in your intro to the concept itself
Best of Luck!!!

[indu_s_n]

haha...sure we have enuf attachments of pre prod waiting to b scanned and uploaded almost all by tommo.....keep a check ! =)

[ssmakx]

oh nice concept man.... and yeah prasun i missed out that concept
... good luck guys... waiting for updates

[lecter83]

WHAOO.. Contra in 3D ! Now this is a game i had played only a couple of times as a kid coz my evil parents back then never let me play it to my heart's content. Parents i say..
But i sure am making up for all that 'lost' time wasted on studies back then.
Brilliant idea guys !
Will be looking forward to ur work here.

[indu_s_n]

Thanxx u all !! keep giving ur comments guys....it really inspires me to put more hard work in the project...

[indu_s_n]

Hey guys...

As u were waiting....here are the finalized sketches of the spider bot...i didn't make the whole sketch...rather divided the whole bot into his parts.....becoz i thought making the whole bot with his guns n stuff will make him messed up in 2d (becoz m not good at sketching like my team mate kapil..) chk out his character sketches....awesome ones !!!

Page1: Body+legs+foot
Page2: Side Gun+Rocket pack+ Cable Claws

Weapons:

Side Guns: They are basically Chain guns with sensors to detect motion.....also they have the bullet belt from the main body..two hydraulic sets A and B which allow compression and six degree freedom...

Rocket Packs:It basically comes out from the top and has 8 barrel rocket shooting mechanism....the reload takes place when the rocket barrage goes in the body.....

Cable Claws:
Crab Claw: Simple crab claw to pick up and squeeze objects....
Electric Claw: A solenoid wrapped on the arms of the claw creates a high electric field inside the ring......the pellet shooter in between shoots pellets which when pass through the field become 'electrified' and upon hitting players causes temporary paralysis....(Like stage 2 from contra)

Thats it !

[AlamGir]

hey man cool concept... we all played contra like hell at one stage of life... very happy dat some actually chose this topic... i would love to see ur WIP updated

[indu_s_n]

Thnx alam!
Hey Prasun, just to notify...we are making the spider bot as u saw from the contra game screenshots.... n if those r the red balls u r talking abt, well's its the shot from Bill's gun not from the spider's turrets......thanx abt the fireball idea, surely we will chk it out ! character final sketches will b uploaded by tonight !!!! sure it's damn tough toconvert a 2d unrealistic game to a 3d sumwat realistic one !

[indu_s_n]

Uploading character sketches

[indu_s_n]

Well, then here are the two characters of our game..............ooooops ! i mean characters from the contra- Bill, the tough guy and Lance the smart guy ! sketches done by Kapil, the most awesome sketching guy in our institute !!

Details:

Bill: He is the tougher out of the two and he always follows one plan "KABOOM!!!!"......hahahhahaha srsly though, he doesn't believe in finding a second way out but always goes right in blowing up everything that comes in his way....
His first and last love of his life is "killing the shit out of every non-human destructive thing!"......other than that he loves the 3 C's :
Cigars, Chicks, Cool guns !!!!!

Lance: As said, Lance is the smarter out of the two......unlike Bill he thinks of the fastest way to destroy the enemy while Bill keeps the enemy engaged.....he is the one who helps rescue Bill wenever Bill lands in trouble becoz of his attitude....

Scene: That's the reason we choose Lance to give the final shot on the Spider Bot while the Bill stands fearless in front of it shooting the hell out of the bot....

NOTE:: Just for fun>> wen i was writing down this, i thought why the original makers of contra named him BILL......i guess it's like an abbreviation, it opens up to Mr. Blow - It - aLL = BILL !

[bhavesh_suthar]

awesome character sketches...

Guys, you are doing great job...look forward for 3d Modeling works...
I really like the BILL Character.

[indu_s_n]

Hi guys....we are in a dilemma...

We need to decide one of the scene angles as the final scene....plzz help us select one quickly because we are waiting to start the character design after the pose selection....

Meanwhile we are in making of guns and spider bot...

All right just to help u guys....

the spider bot is half destroyed, one leg down....
Scene1: Lance is inside the epic helicopter that comes to rescue the contra guys after the game is over....he is shooting at the eye of the bot.....Bill with his big gun is shooting at the bot from down....

Scene2: Lance is doing his epic jump and shooting the eye and Bill is at the same pose...

Scene3: POV of Bill and lance jumping with the same pose as previous...maybe we change Bill's position to show a proper POV with Lance's dynamic pose...

Scene4:A shot from behind Bill.....note Bill will be having a cigar in his mouth so we thought of getting a better shot of this (i like this one)

Scene5:A 3/4 th frnt of Bill and Lance with a little 3/4th back of the bot....(Kapil likes this one)

Plzz help us select one guys.....n it will even b great if u could suggest a better one !!!

[indu_s_n]

Hey all ! Just an update that our third team member is Sumit: user id: sumit_90 ! and plz do give ur suggestion abt which final pose to select !
thnxxxx